Of course I'll be there on Thursday, its one of the very few meetings I go to. I guess I'll make the same promises that I always do. I must get back to the meetings soon, I'll see the PO who always seems to make a beeline for me after, yes here's my number , phone me. I'll see some old friends, some I really miss and care deeply about. ......And I'll be glad I went.
It's the same though, time goes so fast, I don't seem to ever go to another meeting in the forthcoming year, (apart from the DC) and theres another year gone again, it all goes so quick......If I can be so flippant all year about meeting attendance, why does the Memorial mean so much? I think its like I would feel it would be the ulltimate rejection, so wrong if I didn't go.
I think if you no longer go to the Memorial, it is your last rejection of the JW faith.
I always got a warped perverse charge out of buying the wine for the Memorial, even though I was evil and no longer a Witness. Bill, my father in law, partook and he hated the wine some elder used to buy so he asked me to recommend something better.
The first year I took him to a nice out of the way little place and bought him a very nice little bottle. He enjoyed it so much he asked me again the next year until it became a tradition. (And yes, he knew my stance. We talked about it many, many times.) I did that every year until 3 years before his death.
An apostate buying the wine for Memorial. Maybe God does have a sense of humour.
Scoob. Not there yet. It's OK. You are a Memoralite.
xjw_b12 whose dad elder was responsible for buying the wine for the memorial, and sis and I would go downstairs afterwards into the our wine cellar (dad always brought the wine home) and drink the sacred blood...(slurp) and replace it with the homemade stuff.
I'm going, taking a couple of nurses from work, my mum and sister and kids is coming this year as is my brother(that really shocked me!) after,... us sort of younger-uns are off to a pub for a few jars....... I'll be sure to loosen my tie
If I can be so flippant all year about meeting attendance, why does the Memorial mean so much? I think its like I would feel it would be the ulltimate rejection, so wrong if I didn't go.
The memorial never meant anything to me and have not been since I left the lie in 96. The memorial always reminded me of a fashion show. LOL
I know what you mean - but I did not go last year, and now this year I have no desire to go. Wifey and I will have a communion at home this time - but we will not do the Nisan 14 date I think.
The more I read Jesus' words the more I think he was just talking about Christian Fellowship and sharing a meal together, that would include a significant [but not ritualistic] 'remembrance' of Jesus role in the matter of salvation.
Kind of like someone who is about to die, calls all his friends together and says what Jesus said - Keep doing this - that is getting together like we are here - and remembering the last time we got to do so. Of course more religious than that - but without all the pomp and ceremony. And eat the emblems in honor of that last meal.
Just my view at the moment - but trying to get my head around what was really important instead of a self righteous ceremony in which we refuse to do as he told us -
But getting to that point of total rejection of the org is not easy. Thoughts are with you, Bro.
